c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely." — Roger Federer
"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm." — Havelock Ellis
"Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude." — Angus Young
"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world." — Bob Dylan
"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved." — Samuel Smiles
"When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained." — Michael Moore
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." — Albert Einstein
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." — Virginia Woolf
"I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality." — John Randolph
"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy." — Joe Lando
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." — Bob Edwards
"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity." — Sallust
"The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers." — Dan Glickman
"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy." — Eliot Spitzer
"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age." — Lascelles Abercrombie
"Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race." — Jonathan Sacks
"My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!" — Richard Hammond
"For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy." — Cory Booker
"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others." — Indira Gandhi
"We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security." — Stephen Harper
"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science." — Anton Chekhov
"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness." — Julian Clary
"I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic." — Victoria Jackson
"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true." — Katie Holmes
"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." — James Agate
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." — Bryant H. McGill
"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible." — Daryl Hannah
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." — Carl Rogers
"I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness." — Carl Hiaasen
"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism." — Henri Frederic Amiel
"Give peace a chance." — Yitzhak Rabin
"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss." — Tina Fey
"I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy." — Kris Allen
"I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out." — Geddy Lee
"From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough." — Julie Burchill
"In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology." — Shimon Peres
"I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things." — Claude Chabrol
"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it." — Paul Cezanne
"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club." — Naguib Mahfouz
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head." — Serj Tankian
"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful." — Christina Milian
"But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?" — Robert Downey, Jr.
"The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair." — Mercy Otis Warren
"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open." — James Broughton
"When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights." — Ismail Haniyeh
"Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool." — Jessica Brown Findlay
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man." — Alexander Pope
"I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself." — Jennifer Garner
"Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary." — Jim Carrey
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." — Charles Horton Cooley
"Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave." — Richard Lamm
"Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for." — Stephen Covey
"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." — Pope John Paul II
"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers." — Horace
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." — Edmund Burke
"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things." — Gary Gygax
"It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from." — Samantha Morton
"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us." — Thomas Merton
"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities." — Barbra Streisand
"I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part." — O. J. Simpson
"The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation." — Joe Biden
"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods." — Samuel Butler
"The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true." — Atifete Jahjaga
"Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life." — Vikram Chatwal
"My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority." — Dylan McDermott
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government." — Grover Cleveland
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." — Baltasar Gracian
"Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation." — Joe Barton
"I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness." — Scott Stapp
"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas." — Clarence Darrow
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking." — Julius Caesar
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." — William Lyon Phelps
"What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them." — Boy George
"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." — Walter Scott
"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence." — Jean Anouilh
"Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings." — Thomas Becket
"If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable." — George Ade
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires." — Bertrand Russell
"My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics." — Jack Kemp
"Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low." — Sylvia Browne
"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language." — Gail Godwin
"I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage." — Rip Torn
"I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future." — LaToya Jackson
"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science." — Knut Hamsun
"If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." — Ina Garten
"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper." — Michael Shermer
"Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses." — Mitt Romney
"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole." — Ramakrishna
"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour." — Thom Mayne
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'" — Bill Bradley
"I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me." — Marilyn Manson
"When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans." — Ron Paul
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore." — Joel Osteen
"I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree." — Katy Perry
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion." — Mary Douglas
"Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved." — Mitt Romney
"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them." — Anthony Edwards
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." — Oscar Wilde
"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it." — Ernest Hemingway
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys." — Susan Orlean
"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure." — Sylvester Stallone
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature." — Pope Shenouda III
"The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers." — Simon Mainwaring
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you." — William Arthur Ward
"I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'" — Michael Ian Black
"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand." — William Dampier
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." — Henry Ford
"Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama." — David Limbaugh
"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five." — John Updike
"Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts." — Steve Cropper
"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength." — Huey Newton
"Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college." — Danica McKellar
"We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot." — Elizabeth Edwards
"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?" — Cesar Chavez
"Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor." — Lady Bird Johnson
"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness." — Percy Ross
"Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything." — Chris Martin
"I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place." — Barry McGuire
"We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy." — Tom Brady
"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future." — Robert Smithson
"It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it." — Craig Ferguson
"The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth." — Ramakrishna
"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about." — Nigel Kneale
"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime." — Billy Graham
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." — Michelangelo
"I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing." — Elena Vesnina
"We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song." — George Lincoln Rockwell
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands." — Jean Giraudoux
"My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows." — Kid Rock
"When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition." — Jane Goodall
"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness." — John Ruskin
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear." — Dave Barry
"We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America." — Paul Ryan
"The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature." — Vera Farmiga
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." — E. B. White
"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity." — Sammy Davis, Jr.
"I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin." — Cameron Diaz
"I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around." — Chuck Palahniuk
"I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before." — Julia Roberts
"The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness." — Joe Nichols
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it." — Georg C. Lichtenberg
"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down." — Tony Snow
"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." — John F. Kennedy
"In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings." — Rupert Sheldrake
"We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care." — Rick Perry
"Maybe we all change over time." — Elizabeth Edwards
"I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career." — Patrick Duffy
"I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied." — David Cameron
"God, that dumping ground of our dreams." — Jean Rostand
"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony." — Jack Kevorkian
"Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care." — John Mayer
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses." — Thomas Jefferson
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." — Vincent Van Gogh
"America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people." — Rick Perry
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones." — Charlotte Bronte
"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option." — Wilson Greatbatch
"I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money." — Joseph P. Kennedy
"Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract." — Dennis Prager
"I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance." — Kelly Clarkson
"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment." — William Jennings Bryan
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes." — Thomas Hardy
"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners." — Jim Elliot
"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism." — Henry George
"The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power." — James Lovelock
"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you." — Meister Eckhart
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders." — Margaret Mead
"The thing about my music is, there really is no point." — Neil Young
"The first reaction to truth is hatred." — Tertullian
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand." — Maurice Maeterlinck
"We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end." — William Hague
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." — Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." — William Blake
"If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful." — Helen Hunt Jackson
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance." — Peter De Vries
"Call no man happy till he is dead." — Aeschylus
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth." — John Locke
"I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things." — Brian Eno
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first." — T. S. Eliot
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business." — Erykah Badu
"Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it." — Mason Cooley
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." — Jean Cocteau
"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey." — Eric Heiden
"Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else." — Jeffrey Sachs
"I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters." — Daniel Cudmore
"I'm all for same-sex marriage." — Tori Spelling
"Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful." — John Cusack
"I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!" — Mackenzie Crook
"Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny." — Norm MacDonald
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier." — Mary Wesley
"I work to stay alive." — Bette Davis
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." — H. L. Mencken
"President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003." — Conan O'Brien
"A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons." — Lil Wayne
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." — Henry Adams
"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous." — Kevin Kelly
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." — Laurence J. Peter
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." — Rabindranath Tagore
"I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us." — Jack Kevorkian
"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale." — David Bohm
"New Year's Day is every man's birthday." — Charles Lamb
"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now." — Ione Skye
"I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business." — Loretta Young
"Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female." — Rose Tremain
"I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be." — Emily Mortimer
"When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me." — Tim Burton
"I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room." — Dave Franco
"So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams." — Sally Kirkland
"Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence." — E. Stanley Jones
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." — Walt Disney
"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep." — Janet Street-Porter
"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence." — Ron Paul
"In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding." — Shaun White
"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle." — John Green
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." — James Huneker
"A week is a long time in politics." — Harold Wilson
"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized." — Manuel Puig
"He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house." — Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Trust is built with consistency." — Lincoln Chafee
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure." — Robert Browning
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation." — Herman Melville
"I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything." — Caroline Kennedy
"To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after." — Karl Pilkington
"My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me." — Jonathan Winters
"The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life." — Jeffrey Kluger
"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system." — Nathan Deal
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good." — Jude Law
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy." — Theodore White
"It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too." — Gail Simmons
"I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives." — Dan Hawkins
"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love." — Miguel Angel Ruiz
"To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly." — Samuel Johnson
"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running." — Mary Decker
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs." — Francesca da Rimini
"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." — James Gates Percival
"Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth." — Arabella Weir
"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust." — Douglas Wood
"I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey." — Jeremy London
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal." — Igor Stravinsky
"When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion." — Jean Claude Van Damme
"Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least." — ASAP Rocky
"When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally." — John Carpenter
"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing." — Ray Charles
"Jealousy is the grave of affection." — Mary Baker Eddy
"By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins." — Ayelet Waldman
"In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated." — Bradley Cooper
"Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business." — Dhani Harrison
"I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me." — Ziggy Marley
"The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself." — Charles Dickens
"I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life." — Imelda Marcos
"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate." — Gloria Steinem
"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth." — Thomas Huxley
"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God." — David Brainerd
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." — Theodore Roosevelt
"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better." — Benito Mussolini
"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle." — Marilyn Monroe
"I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way." — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
"The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets." — Carly Fiorina
"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny." — Jimmy Carter
"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you." — Daniel J. Boorstin
"Friends are born, not made." — Henry Adams
"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy." — Oscar Wilde
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." — William James
"Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive." — Tim Allen
"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly." — Thomas Sowell
"Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens." — Harry Browne
"Men are the dreams of a shadow." — Pindar
"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!" — Charles Darwin
"Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies." — Francis Parker Yockey
"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses." — Lao Tzu
"My father is an amazing man." — Sherman Alexie
"I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts." — Olivia Colman
"To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights." — Hans Rosling
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture." — David Amram
"I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing." — Megan Fox
"I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues." — Dave Eggers
"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit." — Margaret Cavendish
"I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money." — Johnny Vegas
"Courage is always the surest wisdom." — Wilfred Grenfell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer." — Karl Marx
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." — Edward Abbey
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." — Martha Washington
"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight." — Hannah Arendt
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." — William S. Burroughs
"I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal." — Paul Farmer
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." — Barack Obama
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life." — Potter Stewart
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." — Henri Frederic Amiel
"We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects." — Laurel Clark
"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love." — Gabriel Byrne
"Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short." — Susan Collins
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?" — Khalil Gibran
"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence." — Steve Jobs
"In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me." — Ajay Naidu
"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong." — William Scranton
"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth." — Sharon Stone
"And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take." — Matthew Fox
"There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine." — Frank Leahy
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one." — Queen Victoria
"In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it." — Anthony Hopkins
"I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days." — Bobby Vinton
"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences." — Sonia Sotomayor